Top 10 Albums of 2018

2018 has been a great year for music, and looking at the list, a really great year for female artists.

Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves

By The Way, I Forgive You – Brandi Carlile

Venom & Faith – Larkin Poe

Clean – Soccer Mommy

22:22 – Bessie Turner

Sparrow – Ashley Monroe

Desperate Man – Eric Church

The Lonely One – Ashley Campbell

May Your Kindness Remain – Courtney Marie Andrews

Interstate Gospel – Pistol Annies

I haven’t listened to Ben Glover’s Shorebound or Gretchen Peters’ Dancing With The Beast nearly enough, so maybe this list will get a 2019 shuffle at some point. There is also the case of Bessie Turner’s 22:22 being an EP, but at 6 songs and 20 minutes, it has a running time only 33% less than Larkin Poe’s Venom & Faith, so it counts. That and it’s flippin’ great, and this being my list, I make the rules! 2019 will be starting off with a bang when Danni Nicholls releases her third album, The Melted Morning, my most anticipated album of next year.